Photos from Sgt Bernie Marquis, 63d Infantry Division Band and 63rd Infantry Division Graves Registration Unit

 

A little “Horse Play” in Germany. Bernie Marquis and Hoot Roane 63d Graves Registration Unit. Women in rear are Ukraine women working in German Industrialist’s home taken over by 63d GRU.

 

View of Ulm Germany 28 April 1945

63rd Infantry Division Graves Registration Unit entering St Ingbert, Germany, Mar 1945. Note white sheets hanging in front of homes.

63d Infantry Orchestra entertaining troops

The jeep with GR under the windshield is 63rd Infantry Division Graves Registration Unit vehicle. 63rd GRU personnel are standing nearest left of jeep are Hoot Roane and Joe Pezzula. Sitting on the other jeep is Bernie Marquis. Others in the photo are Corps personnel. 63d GRU personnel are transferring 63rd KIAs to 6th Corps personnel on the road near Swabisch Gmund, Germany Apr 45

Hoot Roane, 63rd GRU enjoying a meal of K Rations near Gunzburg, Germany Apr 45